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When it comes to the international chess game, Trump is a master (2018)

By: Charlie Kirk, opinion contributor — 06/11/18 03:05 PM EDT

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(Editorial comments by Jude Hope 27/05/2020)

Bishop to e6.

 

That was the name of the 17th move in what is commonly referred to as “The Game of the Century” when, on Oct. 17, 1956, 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beat chess master Donald Byrne, 26, and turned the chess world upside down. Fischer’s move offered a sacrifice of his queen, which Byrne accepted, but then Fischer followed with a series of planned, precise attack moves ultimately leading to a checkmate.

When Fisher made that move, those familiar with chess who were stuck in conventional paradigms, common strategies and established protocols gasped in horror as they clearly realized the young prodigy had lost his mind, his nerve, or both. Others, perhaps not as learned, wondered what he might be up to without having a clue. Then there would have been the original, unorthodox thinkers of their time who may have dropped their jaws, fallen back in their seats and thought, “Oh my God, I can’t believe what I’m seeing. This is brilliant.”

It is VERY unlikely that there were many people in the This-is-Brilliant category unless Donald Byrne was not such a brilliant character after all. Just think about it! Donald Byrne was an accepted chess master and because he had to play by the rules (as they do in chess) he would not have got there by being able to claim that he was a chess master. He did, actually, have TO BE A CHESS MASTER. And Donald did not see that Bobby was about to thrash him with the Bishop to E6.

Note 1: So at this point understand that it was unlikely that there were many, if any, people who saw the-writing-on-the-wall with the Bishop to E6 move. And thus I believe that there are not enough people to see the forthcoming trump takeover.

Since he has taken office, President Trump not only has metaphorically translated Fischer’s insightful, creative boldness into his foreign policy, he has done so in cascading tiles of fresh, previously unimaginable moves.

So this means that the author of this document is equating the trump's moves, SO FAR, as being equal in brilliance to a Bishop E6 move. Sorry folks AT THIS POINT IN TIME we are extremely far from the end-of-game that gave Bobby Fisher his victory so any further deductions, conclusions or assumptions that you make in this document are already based on a FALSE ASSUMTION. 

For the eight years prior to President Trump taking office, we had an American apologist in the White House. Prior to that, we had eight years of a president who was part international appeaser and part obsessed with a desert wasteland called Iraq. Neither of them were ambitious, concerned or courageous enough to address glaring problems in the world order that were eroding America’s prominence and strength.

My underline above. Firstly; I cannot find any clearly defined problems-in-the-world in this document which indicates to me that the writer does not really have a clue as to what the REAL problems in the world are and Secondly; referring to America's prominence and strength is a very arrogant and inaccurate statement. The American marketing machine has been brought to its knees by the Covid-19 crisis and America needs to face up to the fact that trump has turned world opinion against America. Even American strength is under question at this time. Sure trump (as he unfailingly will do, for ever and ever) believes America has the strength to take control of the world. Just as Hitler convinced the Germans that they could take control of the world.

And now here comes the America-First Donald J. Trump, taking on every single issue and adversary left alone by his predecessors to fester and strengthen.

And this is where battle commences. As of this time the TMIME (trump mis-information machine for his re-election) has created an entity referred to as the Deep State or fifth state or new world order or some such name. Who is the Deep State? Well the really scary bit is that this is the present American Social Facade or American Dream or America Oberalles or the Great U S of A or anything else that identifies as the present day American Marketing Machine which drives the American Economy, which in turn, is based on profit, PROFIT and more PROFIT = GREED.

Excuse me am I chasing my own tail here? Yes EXACTLY. The trump is exposing the heart of a very selfish, decadent and arrogant society which is what America is at this time. And this IS in fact the DEEP STATE that the trump is going to destroy at any cost. Even if he has to create a world war. AS long as he wins it does not matter how. To trump this is just another game of golf (NOT a game of Chess!!) I refer you to Commander in Cheat, by Rick Reilly which brilliantly exposes how trump wins a game of golf. And this is the way he is going to win the coming election. I sure would never want the trump to be my role model for ANY child.

By creating this Second American War of Independence – The Republicans vs. the Democrats and making it into a really BIG deal he will subtly manipulate the outcomes (by playing the game HIS way) to achieve HIS goals. What are these goals? I am terrified by the conclusions that I have come to but I will put them into a closing paragraph.

So bearing in mind the (ridiculous ??) background defined above let us continue.

The president has opened up multiple advances on multiple diplomatic and military fronts. So radical are the moves that it is hard to grasp that he has been in office only slightly more than 500 days.  

Regarding China, since the “Nixon opening” in 1972, administration after administration has been obsessed with expanding our trading relationship with that sleeping giant of which Napoleon warned “let her sleep. For when she wakes she will move the world.” Decades later, non-communist but highly fascist, China has weaponized its economy to take advantage of Western avarice for cheaply made products. Today it owns nearly $2 trillion of U.S. debt, while our trade deficit with it was approximately $367 billion in 2017.

President Trump has had the courage to stand athwart free-trade fanatics (an aside: we never have had free trade with China) and those obsessed with appeasing the Chinese so as to not risk conflict. His initial moves on both tariffs and tone seem to have gotten their attention. With China wide awake and not going back to sleep, President Trump is asserting American power to make sure China stops moving our world.

China, so far, has been extremely tolerant with America. They DO respect that the people is what goes to make up a country not the profit. Once again Covid-19 has seriously exposed how strict control has it's benefits. Chinese deaths 4,634 and USA deaths 100,136 (25 times greater with no sign of slowing down below 500 per day at this time) with a significantly bigger population. My boss always told me that the runs-on-the-board is what counted !! Good old British cricket. I am inclined to agree with an observation I heard somewhere that trump actually wanted the Covid-19 to be really bad so that he could blame it on the DEEP STATE. I think maybe it got a bit out of control.

With the recently concluded G-7 Summit, the president again took decisive action when, at the end of the event, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a shot at the president and his trade policies after he left. By rescinding America’s concurrence in the summit’s joint communique, Trump showed that under his watch the United States is much like John Wayne’s character J.B. Books in “The Shootist”: It won’t be wronged, it won’t be insulted and it won’t be laid a hand on. Even by its allies.

The president also floated the idea that Russia be allowed back into the G-7. This has met with predictable hysteria from allies and the press. Since everyone agrees Vladimir Putin is not the guy you would name as your daughter’s godfather, they conclude he can’t be part of any alliances. But Putin is not the worst Russian leader with whom the U.S. ever contemplated a relationship: Josef Stalin made Putin a Nobel Peace Prize winner by comparison; we fought alongside Stalin to defeat a more menacing threat in Hitler. Today, the combination of Islamic terror and Chinese muscle-flexing seem to make an alliance with Russia a bold, game-changing idea.

Thank God the world does not have to rely on you for strategic planning. Two paragraphs above you were warning about the Chinese sleeping dragon???

What a brilliant idea! The trump has used Putin to get himself elected. Whether that achieved what was needed or not is debatable but this alliance with Putin grows. Because the trump believes that he cannot fail no matter what he does I contend that he has many other “deals” going on with Putin at this time. However Putin has been in this game (slightly !!! ) longer than trump and the fall-out will not be before trump “takes over” America BUT will be after that. When will that be? When Putin is satisfied that a deal with China is appropriate to bring America to it's knees.

Then there is the summit with Kim. The president’s mastery in bringing Kim to the table, while right out of “The Art of the Deal,” is potentially a move toward what every beauty pageant contestant wants — world peace. The moves he has made in this effort impact China, Iran and every other nation on the globe. We will see where it goes but whatever comes of this meeting, the president is always playing a long game. That long game is restoring America’s position as the global leader.

Get it straight as of this time May, 2020 America is no longer a global leader. The trump has successfully aliented every leader on the planet (except maybe Putin?) By his cancellation of very delicate world-wide agreement on global warming, trade treatise and arms agreements as well as destroying any perception that the rest of the world had of America as a global benefactor (WHO) trump has reduced America to that famous identity of a banana republic. With sufficient war power to destroy the rest of the world on their way down.

AS far as trump's agreement and or promises to Kim is concerned we have no idea of what they may have been. National Security and all that!! My belief is the trump promised Kim whatever (and I mean whatever) he wanted. If you look at trump's history he has never kept a promise in his life if it was not convenient to him. So how do you think Kim will react when told he was an April fool?

America’s “best and brightest” are not the people who inhabit elected political office long-term. America’s best are the men and women of enterprise. They are those in the private sector who innovate, take calculated risks, build things, grow things, produce wealth; they make decisions based upon opportunity for growth and return. Called profit and based on greed and a totally selfish philosophy of I am the richest therefore I am the best. Well unfortunately some of the world has woken up to the fact that there has to be some change from the rich-get-richer as the poor-get-poorer and the plant goes to hell in the process. Typical politicians make decisions designed to insulate themselves from risk and to enhance their power, privilege and prestige. Oh! I see. And trump is the second coming who is going to solve ALL of that because he is not like that at all. Wake-up!!!

Donald Trump stepped straight into the Oval office as a titan of industry. He is now operating U.S. foreign policy as he would his business enterprise. He is maximizing the value of the U.S. brand. He is boldly stepping into new markets. He is looking at lost markets and deciding how to regain them. He is figuring out which are his non-productive divisions and jettisoning them.

This is the new America, Inc. — a mature nation that, because of bad management and poor decisions, lost its place in the market. Now, under new management, it is bringing back the lines that made it great and is adding new ones to secure its future place at the top of the nation-state category.

The parallels with Fischer end here. It is not very likely that Trump will ever be willing, or needing, to sacrifice America’s queen.

You are so right! He is never going to sacrifice America's queen. His aim and objective is a) to gain control (or total influence) over the American Treasury and/or the American economy so only his own enterprises profit and gain and b) he is going to try to be elected as the permanent American President (just like Putin).

The American constitution is of as little significance to him in the same way that American Law takes only a battery of lawyers to keep in line. Being on the fringes (or maybe part of ?) the American Mafia for so long has gained a lawyers perspective of the American Law and believes that the Presidency if pretty well the same size hurdle. So he believes that it is just a case of continuing to destroy everything that gets in his way, no matter how this is done and he will eventually become ….

Two dogs and a cat arrive at heaven. Dog1 declares that all his life he has devoted to serving and protecting his master so he is allocated the right hand seat from GOD. Dog2 declares that he has devoted his entire life to saving people in the snow on the Alpine slopes. God allocates him to the Left hand seat. GOD looks at the cat and says: OK mate what have you done to deserve entry to the kingdom of heaven. Cat1: I believe you are sitting in my seat.

What worries me most? In fact scares me to death !! is that:

1) I believe that there are enough Americans who are going to be taken in by trump for him to get another term of office.

) It will take about another three or four years for the American people to realise what a terrible mistake it has been to allow trump to get that far.

) What happens then is beyond imagination because if trump has access to Devcon 1 and the nuclear codes we WILL have the Armageddon as forecast.

) I feel really sorry for Biden if he manages to get in because the mess in that country is going to take one hell of a lot of sorting out and no matter what he does the American Dream has already been destroyed and a new world order is already taking shape.

Charlie Kirk (@CharlieKirk11) is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit that aims to educate students on free-market values.

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